The word "lunar" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something related to the moon, for example, "The lunar calendar is used to track the phases of the moon."
Sadly, he had to drop the novel's lunar crops on budgetary grounds.
There are more restaurants in Garachico, and excursions include the nearby cliffside village of Masca, and volcanic Mount Teide with its weird, lunar landscapes.
Next year's calendar will give workers 11 days off, including week-long vacations during the lunar new year – also known as the spring festival – and the anniversary of the October 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China.
These are just three of the mysterious images in Shanxi, a hauntingly beautiful photobook by the Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao, which captures the age-old rituals of the annual lunar new year festival in the country's Shanxi province.
"I remember my professor saying to me, 'What man in the world would need to note a lunar cycle?' I decided there were gaps on the history shelves.
In a matter of months, their dredgers and mercury kits can convert vast tracts of green forest into something resembling lunar wastelands.
She said her anthropology professor at Cambridge was an influential figure who had encouraged her to question the way women had been erased from history, starting with the Ishango bone, with the very first recorded markings of a lunar cycle, famously proclaimed as "man's first attempt at a calendar".
If all goes to plan, the so-called Falcon XX could reach lunar orbit in the early 2020s and go on to Mars later in the decade, ten years ahead of the SLS.
Thus begins a meditation on the Apollo programme, the dryness of lunar soil and the rhythm of tides.In this case, the inevitable comparison is to Diane Ackerman's 1990 book, "A Natural History of the Senses".
On December 15th the imprint left by Neil Armstrong's boot on the moon in 1969 found its near-equivalent in the minds of China's media commentators: the "Chinese footprint" gouged in the lunar dust by Yutu, a Chinese rover, after its mother ship made the first soft landing on the moon by a spacecraft since 1976.
The annual lunar new year holiday represents their one chance to have a few days off, go home and see loved ones.
